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This book celebrates two new performance pieces and a recent body
of paintings by the artist, drawing on desert landscapes, Road
Runner cartoons, and Hollywood Westerns. Bursting with full-color
plates and performance stills suffused in a rich desert palette,
this volume was published on the occasion of an exhibition of new
paintings by Dan Colen and the accompanying premiere of two
performance pieces created in collaboration with choreographer
Dimitri Chamblas. Colen's Desert Paintings (2015-19) are lush yet
schematic interpretations of stills from Chuck Jones's animated
shorts featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. These
unpopulated depictions of the cartoons' arid settings recall
hard-edge abstraction, biomorphic landscapes by Georgia O'Keeffe,
and popular art forms such as stage sets, billboards, and the
Hollywood Western. The American cowboys who might inhabit these
scenes were brought to life in two performances Colen presented
with the Desert Paintings as a backdrop. In At Least They Died
Together and Carry On Cowboy, figures in full Western regalia
repeatedly performed a stylized, convulsive death on a mound of
dirt in the gallery. In an insightful essay, Douglas Fogle explores
the works' rich interplay of allusions, ultimately placing them in
the context of the modern human condition.
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